Quentin Tarantino curated a 4-hour playlist of songs from his own movies, just for you
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There’s a lot to love about Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, the ninth (-ish?) film from Quentin Tarantino: Leonardo DiCaprio’s insecurity-driven meltdowns, Brad Pitt shirtless and somehow even more attractive (and hilarious) than he’s ever been, Margaret Qualley’s weird-ass hippie vibe, the dog. As with previous Tarantino films, it’s hard to discuss his latest without praising the soundtrack, which is made up of late ’60s-era appropriate tracks by Paul Revere And The Raiders, Simon And Garfunkel, and The Rolling Stones. That soundtrack is currently available to purchase (or stream, you do you), but the filmmaker did you one better by curating a very cool playlist for Spotify featuring song selections from his entire filmography.
In typical Tarantino fashion, the playlist is four glorious hours long, which should keep you occupied for at least half of your workday. The playlist includes tracks like Nancy Sinatra’s version of “Bang Bang – My Baby Shot Me Down” from Kill Bill, “You Never Can Tell” by Chuck Berry from Pulp Fiction, and the 2002 remaster of “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)“ by David Bowie from Inglourious Basterds. In addition to the obvious picks and hits, you’ll find songs by Harry Nilsson, T. Rex, and The Delfonics, as well as selections from various scores, including tracks by Ennio Morricone (duh)—all preceded by an intro from Tarantino himself:
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Can he curate a list of all the woman he’s seen Harvey Weinstein manhandle and abuse? No? Okay, let’s just pretend that he didn’t enable that and go on with our lives.
the ninth (-ish?) film Reservoir DogsPulp FictionJackie BrownKill BillDeath ProofInglorious BasterdsDjango UnchainedThe Hateful EightOnce Upon a Time… In HollywoodIt’s nine films he’s written and directed. I don’t understand why I continue to see this “-ish” bullshit. He produced and wrote other films.. but these he considers “his”. Why is this so hard?
…Kill Bill was two movies kinda. Volume one and Volume two. It’s just a little harmless nitpick.
and death proof was 1/2 of grindhouse….at least on original release….
Also wrote and directed Four Rooms (well, 1/4 of it)
One could certainly argue that he wrote and directed one fourth of Four Rooms, one half of Grindhouse, and two Kill Bill films.
He is credited as Guest Director for Sin City too.
Yeah, but he didn’t write it. You know, I always found that scene really unremarkable, regardless of who directed it. That it was somehow supposed to be something special QT did for RR just seems really strange, given how much of a nothing scene it was.
I always heard that it was “special” because it’s the only time Quentin has used a digital camera and it specifically made him hate it and refuse to do it ever again.
I don’t think it should count.
Death Proof was on the OP lists. I think the ish comes from whether you consider Kill Bill one or two movies
Depends on whether you consider Death Proof as half of the movie Grindhouse or if Grindhouse is branding for a double feature of Death Proof and Planet Terror.And it still leaves open the question of Four Rooms.
Doesn’t seem like an important hill to defend but keep at it.
As others have said, Kill Bill is hard to see as a single film. Aside from 1 and 2 being quite different tonally, they were released as two films whatever his intentions originally.And if you insist it’s one film because that’s what Quentin intended, then Death Proof is tough to consider a standalone film because it’s part of the Grindhouse collaboration. Which then means Four Rooms should probably count.It’s easy to see why the nine films thing exists, but it’s just as easy to see what people are nitpicking. Why is this so hard?
Kill Bill was two movies, and two very different movies at that. That said, idgaf if Tarantino considers it one film, because that means we get one more film out of him.
Because of Kill Bill and Four Rooms. So yeah, 9ish sounds about right.
I find this eclectic mix of soul, surf, rock, movie score and country INCREDIBLY problematic. Did you know Tarantino once forced Uma Thurman to listen to Girl You’ll Be a Woman Soon on set? Sure, NOW she blames it on Lawrence Bender, but we all know what’s up.
Sweet. Could he also do like a four-minute breakdown on whether or not Brad Pitt’s character Cliff Booth is meant to be an unreliable narrator or not, so that the bitter sectarian violence gripping AVC comments sections can end?
I hope he never weighs in. I like it when art is left open to interpretation.That said: Cliff is totally an unreliable narrator. I think it’s funny that Bruce Lee’s daughter is upset about Lee’s depiction in the movie when it’s easy to assume that Cliff is having an “I could kick Bruce Lee’s ass” fantasy.
I like when art is left open to the reader/viewer, too, but the number of people weighing in with the kind of definitive answer that you yourself are kind of offering (“Cliff is totally an unreliable narrator,” or it’s definitely a fantasy, not a flashback, or vice versa) and insulting people that disagree with them kind of belies that premise. Not that you’re insulting people, but there was a lot of that–going both ways–yesterday and the day before.
Well, I was being facetious when I said “totally.” But I forgot that tone doesn’t always come through on the Internet.Regardless, debating movie shouldn’t devolve into (or begin with) insults. It’s counterproductive.
Understood, and I agree wholeheartedly.
Booth isn’t the narrator.
Booth is the narrator of the Bruce Lee scene because it’s through Cliff’s memory that we experience that scene. This creates a precedent to argue that the entire climax of the film is also seen through Booth’s perspective, either as a drug trip or his revisionist fantasy of what actually happened. The key moment is when he says “And away we go.” From that moment on, are we witnessing an alternate history (the entire movie exists in a 1969 different than ours) or the fabricated reality of a character who has already offered up a suspect version of past events (Did he really go toe-to-toe with Bruce Lee, or was he fired from Green Hornet for something else?)?The question I have is: How much of the film is from Booth’s perspective? Are the scenes of Rick on the Lancer set told as Booth wants to remember them (Cliff believes in Rick, so did he embellish what happened by having the girl whisper the OTT compliment in Rick’s ear?)? And, if this is the case, why is it Randy, a guy Cliff knows doesn’t dig him, who occasionally provides voiceover? Is Randy the voice of Cliff’s subconscious?
The narrating in ’Once Upon a Time’ is done by Kurt Russell…
Didn’t listen to the rest “Bustin’ Surfboards” is kinetic action from a bank robbery scene in ‘Point Break’ (1991) a woman going through a house in Los Angeles shooting everyone
The Jackie Brown Sdtk, is my favorite of the lot. The dude picks some solid music throughout his films.
it’s by far my favorite as well….solid from script to the actors…Robert Forester is amazing. Pam Grier is amazing….the music is awesome….love it..
My fave playlist is K-Billy’s Super Sounds of The 70’s from Reservoir Dogs where you don’t even hear all the songs, but I made a playlist of grabbing every song K-Billy (Steven Wright) plays and also mentions during his DJ breaks.
Yeah Tarantino soundtracks are always a lot of fun. I enjoy the Kill Bill ones a lot as well.
Jackson’s surprise that Forster’s character likes the Delfonics is one of the best moments in that movie…“they’re pretty cool”
But sometimes he picks stuff that makes his music supervisor’s job difficult. He’s been working with Mary Ramos since the beginning and she has some stories.
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/quentin-tarantino-music-supervisor-mary-ramos-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-1203281034/ For “Django Unchained,” the James Brown estate was very adamant they did not want to let us use “The Payback” for the mash-up “Unchained,” which was Tupac and James Brown — which we created, by the way, for the movie. James Brown’s estate was like, nope — nope, nope, nope, wasn’t going to happen. And Quentin, of course, wanted to use it in one of the pinnacle, most over-the-top bloody scenes in the movie, the shootout where it’s (Jamie Foxx’s character) against everybody. He actually even uses a corpse as a shield. [Laughs.] Basically it was describing it passionately, and making a case for why it was important to have over-the-top violence to really illustrate why this was such a surrender for him to give up and to save his wife. … I did it better in my letter. [Laughs.] But I wrote another letter to the James Brown estate, and they approved. So I’ve never had to have an artist in to see a picture, but I have had to go to the mat.There is an actual Manson song [in “Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood”], yes. The Manson girls, when they’re dumpster diving, they’re singing. And just to let you know, because even considering using that, we wanted to find out —because there’s a publisher that owns that music — to find out what happens if this is used, where the money goes, etc. And there was a trust set up for the victims, and no one even associated with the Mansons and the Manson family makes money off of that song.
https://www.vulture.com/2015/12/talking-to-quentin-tarantinos-music-supervisor.htmlOn getting “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Santa Esmeralda in Kill Bill: “It’s one of my most proud moments. That one almost didn’t happen. Can you imagine that scene without that magnificent disco flamenco? The piece of music was totally unclearable. We were flat-out denied by the French record label because they’d been in a legal stalemate with the lead singer, Leroy Gómez, for years. I was like, ‘No, I’m not going to tell my director he can’t have it.’ So, I had two days to do this. I had to track down the lead singer. I’m telling you, I searched obituaries and phone books and copyright searches, you name it. I just went through every single scrap of information I could find. Through an obituary, I finally found his mother in some remote part of Massachusetts and she gave me the number for Leroy in France. I called Leroy Gómez out of the frickin’ blue and we worked out a solution to their decade-long legal situation. Leroy and his wife were my date for the premiere.”
I used to have an ultimate Tarantino collection CD.Blasting “Little Green Bag” in my HS parking lot, proving to everyone I was a huge dork.
Say what you want about the movie but Death Proof’s soundtrack is killer. My personal favorite.